How eligibility criteria and entitlement characteristics of unemployment benefits affect job finding rates of elderly workers

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IZA Seminar

Place: Schaumburg-Lippe-Str. 9, 53113 Bonn

Date: 26.10.2005, 12:00 - 13:30

   

Presentation by 

Jan C. van Ours (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
   

Abstract:

In the Netherlands eligibility criteria for unemployment benefits are age-specific. Once workers reach age 57.5 they are no longer required to actively search for work. Furthermore, if workers become unemployed after age 57.5 they are entitled to unemployment benefits up to the age of 65 (after which they will receive old age pensions). This paper investigates the effects of eligibility criteria and entitlement characteristics on the job finding rates of elderly workers. We find substantial effects.

   
   
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